Spells Arena vs Snowballs!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Spells Arena
Engage in real-time spell-casting duels by drawing magical signs. Challenge friends or a sophisticated AI with over 30 unique spells and physics-based gameplay. Experience stunning graphics and a compelling story.
- Real-time multiplayer combat
- AI opponents with varying difficulty
- Gesture and swipe spell drawing controls
- Physics-based spell simulation
- Over 30 unique spells
- Story mode and leaderboards
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iFanzine: "... is an interesting concept, reminding me heavily of later incarnations of Lazer Tag." ***½ AppPicker: "The app features stunning and high-tech graphics" A-Maze: Candidate for Berlin Game Awards ---- Challenge the Gods and fight drawing spell signs. Spells Arena invites players to fight against their friends in realtime or fight against a tough AI that has 20 different opponents of various difficulties and personalities that await you! - Game Mechanics: Every player has 3 gems. Each gem has its unique spells. To activate the spells the player draws the signs. The gems you saved light up the portal stars and unlock new spell signs - 2 Gesture Controls Mode: Swipe or Gesture Sign Draw - Fun to Play: use plasma balls, shields, barrier, different types of traps that are created by the spells. Guide better the plasma balls using the aiming trajectory. LiquidFun engine is used to simulate the spells plasma. - Enjoy the story of the origins - Physics based gameplay - More than 30 spells gems await you - Multiplayer : Peer to Peer and Game Center - Enjoy the 3 characters to play: Inzana, Lahai, Sish - 3 levels of proficiency: apprentice ,sorcerer and warlock. On apprentice level the player is guided through a tutorial and competing against a difficultless AI, on the sorcerer and warlock levels the action is more and more frenetic and the AI becomes tougher to compete - Soundtrack by Craze Music Productions - Leaderboards Scores Spells Arena uses advanced graphics techniques to delight the eyes of the gamer. The light is computed in real time, the Gems and the Portals likewise and the fluid follows the physics laws of Boltzmann. Available only on iOS in following languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Romanian. It’s compatible with: - iPhone 4, 4S, 5, 5C, 5S, 6, 6 Plus, 6S, 6S Plus. 7, 7 Plus - iPod touch 5th generation - iPad 2, 3rd, 4th generations. - iPad Mini, Mini 2, Mini 3 - iPad Air, Air 2 For best experience play with - iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6S, 6S Plus. 7, 7 Plus, 5S, 5C, iPhone 5, - iPad Air, Air 2, Mini 2, Mini 3, iPad 3rd, 4th generations. Some effects are disabled or downgraded on older generations.
Snowballs!
Command squads of AI-powered children in real-time snowball battles to capture the enemy flag. Strategically direct your team's movements and attacks while utilizing the environment and managing their stamina.
- AI-powered child squads
- Real-time snowball battles
- Flag capture objective
- Strategic movement commands
- Terrain utilization
- Stamina management
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Lead your squads of school children in a real-time battle to capture the other team's flag in an epic snowball fight! Each child has their own name, strengths and weaknesses, and sophisticated artificial intelligence so all you need to do is tell them where to move to, charge or rapid fire, and they will take care of the rest. They'll run away if you leave them exposed or surrounded so make use of the terrain and be careful not to let them get exhausted.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Spells Arena at none against Snowballs!'s 1. Spells Arena also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). Snowballs!'s advantage is ratings volume (34 vs 3). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Snowballs! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Spells Arena asks for nothing beyond the download.
Spells Arena holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Snowballs! has 34 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Spells Arena's written reviews are positive against 81% of Snowballs!'s.
Spells Arena ships an update every 5 weeks, Snowballs! every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spells Arena | Snowballs! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better | 4.5 (34 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better | 80.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 34 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | 2 THINK DI CAPUANO ROBERTO E MAIER ELISABETA LOANA SNC | Sean O'Connor |
Customer experience
Spells Arena
Snowballs!
In-app purchases
Spells Arena
No in-app purchases
Snowballs!
- All of the maps$3.99
